Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 11/24/2014 11:35:31 AM PST by Beave Meister
The world is locked into 1.5°C global warming, posing severe risks to lives and livelihoods around the world, according to a new climate report commissioned by the World Bank. The report, which called on a large body of scientific evidence, found that global warming of close to 1.5°C above pre-industrial times – up from 0.8°C today – is already locked into Earth's atmospheric system by past and predicted greenhouse gas emissions.
Such an increase could have potentially catastrophic consequences for mankind, causing the global sea level to rise more than 30 centimeters by 2100, droughts to become more severe and placing almost 90 percent of coral reefs at risk of extinction."A world even 1.5°C [warmer] will mean more severe droughts and global sea level rise, increasing the risk of damage from storm surges and crop loss and raising the cost of adaptation for millions of people," the report with multiple authors said. "These changes are already underway, with global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, and the impact on food security, water supplies and livelihoods is just beginning." The World Bank called on scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics and asked them to look at the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, cities and ecosystems across the world. Their findings, collated in the Bank's third report on climate change published on Monday, specifically looked at the risks climate change poses to lives and livelihoods across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa.
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I guess they’ve traveled far enough back in time to where 3 people actually believe it and they can continue getting money for it.
Global warming somehow made the polar air colder, while keeping the temperate zones the same.
I’ve seen that problem with temperatures displayed by quite a number of banks on the Range. Maybe the sensors are improperly housed. That is, maybe they’re soaking up warmth from the housings around them, which housings may get sunlight at times or heat from the buildings that they’re attached to.
It’s hard to tell with thermometers from a local store, too—both liquid and coil types. The liquid thermometers tend to be limited from reading very low temperatures. The coil thermometers degrade and are often inaccurate when new.
Thermistors (temperature sensors) are probably the way to go. Some of the low-cost, tiny weather stations with a few modifications to protect them from extreme temps, 100 mph spraying ice, etc., can do well, if the temperature sensors are properly housed (shielded from sunlight while not warmed by a surrounding case).
I’m in an area without a registered, local weather station, BTW, and have a few other things to do before mounting new weather monitoring equipment here. For accurate weather readings and forecasts around the Range, we would need many more weather stations. Temperatures, for example, are often radically different between my location and a location about three miles to the east (transition between patterns).
Another consideration: higher winter temperatures reported in resort areas might sometimes bring more tourism revenues.
The first ten years I lived here the time and temp were always accurate. Location of sensors wouldn’t explain the incorrect time either. Since they obviously aren’t going to fix it I wonder why they don’t save the electricity and just shut it off.
But the temps read high in the summer, which is when we have tourists, and cool mountain temps is one of the main reasons people come here. Winter visitors are far and few between.
Agreed. They should shut it off.
It’s also possible that temperature fluctuations between two and six years from now will shut it off for them. I made sure that some recent replacements for solar system components here are good down to -40, F (couldn’t find any that will stand lower than that). We’re also looking at some ways to backup propane heating with non-propane solutions.
Propane yields noticeably less volume and pressure for large appliances in the minus 30s, F, and freezes at -44, F. Propane furnaces and generators, needing much volume, could be problematic, and large propane tanks made for burial are very expensive. One solution is to heat propane tanks with heat tape and insulation, but that’s not as reliably done for houses too far from the grid (expensive heating with PV solar systems).
Butbutbutbut. ...blizzards in Buffalo and Lake Superior freezing over is all cuz of global warming!
"Climate, change!" lol
Global Warming Is Already Locked In, World Bank Says
I certainly hope so.
“Locked in” at 1.5°.
Wait! Is that an interest rate?
Michael Jackson knew about this! In “This Is It,” he said the earth was five or so years away from being irreversibly locked into global warming. I gotta go with my guy here.
"Financing climate change is an important part of the World Bank Group's business. Our focus has resulted in significant financing flowing to support low-emissions and resilient development. For example, mitigation support for the world's poorest countries through the Bank's IDA reached $2.3 billion during fiscal year 2013, while the IFC's mitigation financing increased 50 percent to $2.5 billion."
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatefinance
There is no other kind. If you were quoting me you left out the all important comma. ;-)
Climate, change!
So now we should stop trying to prevent it and adapt to it instead, GREAT! The climate has changed on Earth since the beginning of time. Organisms that survive adapt.
Global Warming on Free Republic
That's easy enough to believe. #USCirclingTheBowl
Locked in?
I’d say, ‘Baked In’ if we are to believe Charlatans and Snake Oil Salesmen! ;)
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